Yucatán & the South
Chiapas
Ocosingo Municipality

Yaxchilan

Yaxchilán is an archaeological site in the state of in southern . At its peak, Yaxchilan was one of the largest and most powerful city-states in the Mayan realm, though today, its remote location makes it a relatively challenging site to visit.
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  • Type: Forest
  • Description: pre-Columbian archaeological site
  • Also known as: “Ruinas de Yaxchilan” and “Zona arqueológica de Yaxchilan”

Yaxchilan

Latitude
16.8988° or 16° 53′ 56″ north
Longitude
-90.9657° or 90° 57′ 57″ west
Elevation
127 metres (417 feet)
Open location code
768FV2XM+GP
Open­Street­Map ID
way 54176813
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­wood
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
3514298
Wiki­data ID
Q662263
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Yaxchilan” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Yaxchilán”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yaşçilan”
  • Basque: “Yaxchilan”
  • Belarusian: “Яшчылан”
  • Bengali: “ইয়াকচিলান”
  • Catalan: “Yaxchilán”
  • Chinese: “亚斯奇兰”
  • Dutch: “Yaxchilan”
  • Dutch: “Yaxchilán”
  • Esperanto: “Yaxchilán”
  • French: “Yaxchilan”
  • Georgian: “იაშჩილანი”
  • German: “Yaxchilán”
  • Hebrew: “ישצ’ילן”
  • Hungarian: “Yaxchilán”
  • Indonesian: “Yaxchilan”
  • Italian: “Yaxchilán”
  • Japanese: “ヤシュチラン”
  • Lithuanian: “Jaščilanas”
  • Polish: “Yaxchilán”
  • Portuguese: “Yaxchilan”
  • Romanian: “Yaxchilán”
  • Russian: “Йашчилан”
  • Russian: “Яшчилан”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Yaxchilan”
  • Spanish: “Yaxchilan”
  • Spanish: “Yaxchilán”
  • Swedish: “Yaxchilán”
  • Ukrainian: “Яшчилан”
  • Ukrainian: “Яшчілан”
  • Vietnamese: “Yaxchilan”
  • “Yaxchilán”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Yaxchilan”. Photo: Arian Zwegers, CC BY 2.0.